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Definition of Paltry
1. Adjective. Not worth considering. "A trifling matter"
2. Adjective. Contemptibly small in amount. "Almost depleted his miserable store of dried beans"
Similar to: Meager, Meagerly, Meagre, Scrimpy, Stingy
Derivative terms: Paltriness
Definition of Paltry
1. a. Mean; vile; worthless; despicable; contemptible; pitiful; trifling; as, a paltry excuse; paltry gold.
Definition of Paltry
1. Adjective. trashy, trivial, of little value ¹
2. Adjective. meager; worthless; pitiful; trifling ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Paltry
1. petty [adj -TRIER, -TRIEST] : PALTRILY [adv] - See also: petty
Lexicographical Neighbors of Paltry
Literary usage of Paltry
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary: Or, Collection of Words, Phrases, Names, and Allusions to by Robert Nares (1859)
"Meaning, I suppose, to become paltry or contemptible : I found the ... A very
common epithet, with our old writers, to signify paltry, or contemptible. ..."
2. History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth by JAMES ANTHONY. FROUDE (1870)
"The small and paltry manoeuvring was for the moment laid aside, and Wal- singham,
with Burghley now at his back, half succeeded in persuading her to leave ..."
3. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"nd the intensified sensitiveness of the modern cultured man—all these together
have caused aa- trology to emerge from its hiding place among paltry ..."
4. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1829)
"Down to our paltry fates we bow, Headlong in Error's wild career : We mock the
doubts, and scorn the fear And, month by month, and year by year, ..."
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